Deterministic Planner

You can enforce deterministic planning by creating a validated PLAN.json file before executing changes. This artifact requires fields for objective, steps, verification, and rollback to prevent unvetted actions during complex automation.

PLAN.json schema validation is used for risk-management by verifying that a plan contains objective, steps, verification, and rollback fields. This prevents unsystematic execution during software changes or data migrations.

To generate a validated plan for a database migration using PowerShell, run the init_plan.ps1 script with your high-level objective. This hydrates a PLAN.json file containing the required steps, verification, and rollback strategy.

Yes, you can use deterministic planning for operational upgrades and data migrations. The validation ensures that objective, steps, verification, and rollback are defined for planning-heavy tasks across these domains.

A limitation of relying on upfront planning for software changes is the strict requirement to generate and validate a PLAN.json artifact before execution. This prevents improvising but may add overhead to smaller tasks.